1 Kings 15:12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

◄ 1 Kings 15:12 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

English Standard Version
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

New American Standard Bible
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

King James Bible
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

International Standard Version
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and destroyed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

American Standard Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Darby Bible Translation
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

Young's Literal Translation
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 11:7
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 11:8
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 21:26
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

2 Kings 23:7
And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

2 Chronicles 14:2
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:

Jump to Previous

Banished Country Cult Expelled Fathers Gods Idols Images Male Prostitutes Purposes Removed Removeth Rid Sex Shrine Sodomites Turneth Used Whoremongers Worship

Jump to Next

Banished Country Cult Expelled Fathers Gods Idols Images Male Prostitutes Purposes Removed Removeth Rid Sex Shrine Sodomites Turneth Used Whoremongers Worship

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:9-24 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well; not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God's honour and glory. Asa was cordially devoted to the service of God, his sins not arising from presumption. But his league with Benhadad arose from unbelief. Even true believers find it hard, in times of urgent danger, to trust in the Lord with all their heart. Unbelief makes way for carnal policy, and thus for one sin after another. Unbelief has often led Christians to call in the help of the Lord's enemies in their contests with their brethren; and some who once shone brightly, have thus been covered with a dark cloud towards the end of their days.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10-13. his mother's name was Maachah—She was properly his grandmother, and she is here called "the king's mother," from the post of dignity which at the beginning of his reign she possessed. Asa, as a constitutional monarch, acted like the pious David, laboring to abolish the traces and polluting practices of idolatry, and in pursuance of his impartial conduct, he did not spare delinquents even of the highest rank.